Examples for Adjectives


Adjectives describe nouns. Beautiful child.
A word before a noun is an adjective. Beautiful is an adjective before the noun 'child'.

Below are adjective words, with their possible opposites.

 

Adjectives

colors
personal qualities
physical qualities
conditions of people and things
status

red
white


black
white

orange

yellow

green

blue

purple

brown

aqua

gray

cayenne

turquoise

navy

brick

off-white

off-black

dark-blue

pink

purple

beige

 

 

beautiful
ugly

good
bad

nice
plain

honest
dishonest

nasty
kind

polite
rude

zany
quirky

vivacious
dull

cooperative
uncooperative

courageous
uncourageous
cowardly

incredible
expected  

industrious
lazy

creative

affectionate
cold

warm
cold

interesting
dull
more

 


big
small

colossal
tiny

fat
skinny
thin

giant
minuscule

gigantic
petite

great
huge
little

immense, insignificant

large
narrow

little
big

heavy
light

long
short

mammoth miniature

massive
petite

dark
bright

cold
hot

healthy
sick

rick
poor

young
old

tall
short

adaptable
rigid

accurate
inaccurate

pleasant
unpleasant

right
wrong

quiet
noisy

energetic
loveless

lively
listless

depressed
happy

broke
well-off

rude
polite
well-mannered

inspiring
morone

 


 

ready
not ready

late
early

prepared
not prepared

well-prepared
ill-prepared

automated
manual

determent
indeterminate

exuberant
dormant

diligent
scanty

complete
incomplete

updated
outdated
obsolete


 

 

 

 

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